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Climate change raises existential questions—ones that, some argue, exist more comfortably in the realm of morality than science. So might the world’s religious traditions help us face the challenges of the ... Download Podcast The post Fred Bahnson on Christianity and Climate Change appeared first on Orion Magazine.

Did you know that when wolves howl, they harmonize with one another? Or that if a human imitates a howl, nearby wolves will modulate their voices and chime in? Listen to ... Download Podcast The post Brenda Peterson Reads “Wolf Music” appeared first on Orion Magazine.

In the English language, we reserve the pronouns of personhood for humans—”he,” “she,” “they”—and not for animals, plants, and landscapes. Yet in many of America’s indigenous languages, such barriers are dissolved, ... Download Podcast The post Robin Wall Kimmerer on the Language of Animacy appeared first on Orion Magazine.

Between globalization, technological advance, and ecological crisis, humans are living through a time of nearly unprecedented change. For centuries, many of us have told a particular story about the nature and direction ... Download Podcast The post Paul Kingsnorth on the Story of Civilization appeared first on Orion Magazine.

Memory of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, thirty years ago, is still resonant—but its aftermath in the Ukrainian countryside continues to shape the physical earth. Listen to author Melanie Rae Thon ... Download Podcast The post Melanie Rae Thon Reads “In the Exclusion Zone” appeared first on Orion Magazine.

The notion of private property—that land can be owned and put to private use—is deeply ingrained in contemporary society. Yet it’s an idea that’s barely five-hundred years old. Orion editor Scott ... Download Podcast The post Steven Stoll on Private Property appeared first on Orion Magazine.

The idea that we’ll soon run out of fossil fuel is both popular and frightening. But is it accurate? Orion editor Andrew Blechman speaks with Charles C. Mann, who argues that the ... Download Podcast The post Charles C. Mann on Peak Oil appeared first on Orion Magazine.